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We had a nice contract in carrying stew and tea up for the front line troops and also the supports.
Would set out with the above mentioned rations in what are called containers which were big canisters lined with zinc and provided with covers that had thumbscrews. Unfortunately the men who belonged to some previous Battalion did not wait to unscrew the thumbscrews but impatiently knocked them back so that they could get the stew quick. This as you can see made it awkward for the later arrivals.
We would put the containers on our backs our arms through the slings and start off for the cookhouse on the return journey. If we came
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